A retrospective hospital benefit and cost analysis of the management of human tissues for orthopaedic allografts

European Journal of hospital pharmacy: scienze and pratictice

Andrea Ossato, Valeria Mezzadrelli, Giulia Montagner, Diletta Trojan, Giuseppe Giovagnoni, Michele Giannini, Carlotta Trabucchi, Chiara Angelini, Francesca Realdon, Lorenza Cipriano, Nicola Realdon, Teresa Zuppini, Roberto Tessari

The transplantation of human tissues is a greatly expanding field of medicine with unquestionable benefits that raise questions about safety, quality and ethics. Since 1 October 2019, the Fondazione Banca dei Tessuti del Veneto (FBTV) stopped sending thawed and ready to be transplanted cadaveric human tissues to hospitals. A retrospective analysis of the period 2016-2019 found a significant number of unused tissues. For this reason, the hospital pharmacy has developed a new centralised service characterised by thawing and washing human tissues for orthopaedic allografts. This study aims to analyse the hospital cost and benefit derived from this new service.